Rowing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Rowing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 7 to 10 October. The events took place at the Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Argentina, being raced over a 500 metre 4 lane course, under the Puente de la Mujer. Racing started with a time trial (out, round a buoy, and back) to allocate crews to heats. There were two rounds of heats with crews being awarded points based on their ranking in each heat and the accumulated points from the two heats determining progression to the quarter-finals of the singles and semi-finals of the pairs.[1]

Rowing at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Dock 3, Puerto Madero
Dates	7–10 October
No. of events	4 (2 boys, 2 girls)

Qualification

Six qualification events were held to determine the representation for the 2018 Youth Olympics, the 2017 World Junior Championships and five continental qualifiers. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 boats, 1 per each gender. Should Argentina not qualify any boats they would be given a boat in single sculls for each gender. As Argentina qualified two boats the host quota was reallocated to the American Qualification Regatta. In addition four athlete quotas, two from each gender will be decided by the Tripartite Commission.[2]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2001. Should a NOC qualify two boats from the same gender the boat with the higher ranking will be qualified and the next highest ranked NOC will qualify.[2]

Single Sculls

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified Boys	Qualified Girls
Host Nation	–	–	0	Argentina	Argentina
2017 World Championships[3]	Trakai	2–6 August 2017	8	United States  Australia  Switzerland  Belarus  South Africa  Denmark  Greece  Norway	Spain  Great Britain  South Africa  Germany  France  Belgium  Sweden  Canada
Asian Qualification Regatta[3]	Singapore	11–14 October 2017	3	China  Japan  Hong Kong	Chinese Taipei  Iran  Uzbekistan
Oceania Qualification Regatta[4]	Port Vila	22–23 January 2018	1	Kiribati	Australia
Americas Qualification Regatta[3]	Curauma, Valparaíso	10–12 April 2018	4	Peru  Cuba  Uruguay  Brazil	Argentina  Mexico  Guatemala  Cuba
2018 European Championships[5]	Gravelines	26–27 May 2018	3	Czech Republic  Moldova  Ukraine	Switzerland  Slovenia  Estonia
2018 African Youth Games	Algiers	19–21 July 2018	3	Zimbabwe  Tunisia  Egypt	Algeria  Zimbabwe  Tunisia
Tripartite Invitation[3]	–	–	2	Nicaragua  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Uganda  Lebanon
Reallocation of Unused Quotas	–	–
TOTAL				24	24

Pairs

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified Boys	Qualified Girls
2017 World Championships[3]	Trakai	2–6 August 2017	8	Croatia  Great Britain  Germany  Romania  Turkey  Uzbekistan  Mexico  Argentina	Croatia  Czech Republic  Greece  Lithuania  Italy  China  United States  Romania
Asian Qualification Regatta[3]	Singapore	11–14 October 2017	1	India	Thailand
Americas Qualification Regatta[3]	Curauma	10–12 April 2018	1	Chile	Chile
2018 European Championships[5]	Gravelines	26–27 May 2018	1	Italy	Netherlands
2018 African Youth Games	Algiers	19–21 July 2018	1	Egypt	Algeria
TOTAL				12	12

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Argentina)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina*	1	0	1	2
2	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
5	Romania	0	1	1	2
6	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
9	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Estonia	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		4	4	4	12

Boys

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys' Single Sculls	Ivan Tyshchenko  Ukraine	Ivan Brynza  Belarus	Cormac Kennedy-Leverett  Australia
Boys' Pairs	Italy (ITA) Alberto Zamariola Nicolas Castelnovo	Romania (ROM) Florin Nicolae Arteni-Fintinariu Alexandru Danciu	Argentina (ARG) Felipe Modarelli Tomas Herrera

Girls

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Girls' Single Sculls	Maria Sol Ordas  Argentina	Elin Lindroth  Sweden	Greta Jaanson  Estonia
Girls' Pair	Greece (GRE) Maria Kyridou Christina Bourbou	Czech Republic (CZE) Anna Šantrůčková Eliška Podrazilová	Romania (ROM) Tabita Maftei Alina Maria Baletchi

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  Greece: Maria Kyridou and Christina Bourbou, Gold medal
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  Czech Republic: Anna Šantrůčková and Eliška Podrazilová, Silver medal
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  Romania: Tabita Maftei and Alina Maria Baletchi, Bronze medal

References

1. "2018 Youth Olympic Games". FISA. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
2. "Qualification System: Rowing" (PDF). FISA. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
3. "2018 Youth Olympic Games Rowing Places Obtained" (PDF). FISA. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
4. "A welcome to Kiribati as Oceania goes for YOG qualification". FISA. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
5. "Names of the future stand out at European Rowing Junior Champs". FISA. 30 May 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

External links

• Official Results Book – Rowing